Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
luminary .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word luminaries.
Examples
-
The Rant is a panel where a bunch of luminaries from the gaming world get together and foam at the mouth, hurling obscenities and pearls of wisdom from the stage.
- Boing Boing 2006
-
The image of light-bearers or luminaries is carried on from Php
-
Campbell would join luminaries including Tom Wolfe, AA Gill, Sebastian Faulks and Melvyn Bragg if he wins the award – a plaster foot – on November 25 at London’s aptly named In and Out club.
-
Speakers are a “who’s who” of luminaries from a variety of communities.
Sustainable Design Update » Blog Archive » Al Gore’s Follow Up to “An Inconvenient Truth” 2006
-
And He also created the lesser luminaries, that is, the moon and the stars, to have rule and authority [1719] over the night, and to give light by night.
-
Atarimatt & great unwashed luminaries, which is also very cool, a review yours truly threw up there of the abbreviated version of local bittersweet pop songstress
SCR Blog 2009
-
Atarimatt & great unwashed luminaries, which is also very cool, a review yours truly threw up there of the abbreviated version of local bittersweet pop songstress
SCR Blog 2009
-
Winning in Dubai, where such one-name luminaries like Seve,
-
He is the go-to religious leader for many of the "luminaries" of the right.
Waymon Hudson: Sam Brownback's Pastor Problem: Evangelical Extremist Lou Engle 2010
-
Maybe at the Jefferson - Jackson Day dinner, all the assembled Democratic "luminaries" could discuss why the party has abandoned the Constitution and permitted George W. Bush to become a dictator.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.